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Like rock climbing, the sport entails a rope system — known as belaying — but differs in substantive ways.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 23, 2024

The former will have certified rock-climbing guides belaying climbers and teaching climbing skills throughout the day at the rock wall.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 6, 2023

Joshua went ahead belaying by rope and fixing ice-pins.

From The Guardian • Jan. 8, 2018

Rope is looped around metal dowels called belaying pins that sit in a horizontal steel bar called a pin rail.

From Washington Post • Jun. 26, 2017

Also, an iron encircling hoop, fitted with belaying pins round the mast.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir